City marshals forcibly removed the controversial taxi mogul from his longtime headquarters on W. 28th Street on the morning of Aug. 24 after he fell $170,000 behind on his rent, said the lawyer who evicted him.

“He’s a pathetic loser, and now he’s out,” said Steven Sperber, who is the attorney for building owner Pradera Realty.

Freidman owns 830 taxi medallions. He ran his empire, including hundreds of taxi companies with names such as Cupcake Taxi, Stoli Taxi, and Red Bull Taxi, from the 28th Street building for at least a decade, said Sperber.

The monthly rent on the offices was nearly $16,000. The realty company first got a judgment against Freidman in February for $78,000. But then he continued to not pay his rent from March through August, bringing his bill up to about $170,000 plus court costs.

Freidman has brought a boatload of trouble on himself in the past few years. He has been repeatedly sued by the state for not paying taxes on behalf of his drivers, and earlier this year, the state attorney general took over Freidman’s finances, saying he couldn’t be trusted to manage them himself. His wife also divorced him last year.